LISAMAR

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1. dye allergies

   LISAMAR posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi I am a student with a question about dye allergies. If a patient is allergic to shellfish, iodine, lobster they can't have a CT scan under any circumstances or do they just premedicate with say...benadryl? And is this the same with an MRI and IVP...

2. suctioning

   LISAMAR posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello... I am a student with a question about suctioning. If you are suctioning someone, going through their nose, how far can you go? Just down to the nasopharyngeal area or can you go all the way down to the trachea?

3. Chewing Ice!!!

   LISAMAR replied to LadyBugLass's topic in General Nursing

   I don't think science has figured out exactly why... just some combination of psychological and biochemical factors.

4. Lowest K Level You've Seen

   LISAMAR posted a topic in General Nursing

   What's the lowest potassium level you've seen and did the patient survive?

5. oral chemo

   LISAMAR posted a topic in Oncology

   What sort of precautions do nurses need to follow with a patient on oral chemo? Do you need to wear gloves when handling the pills? Is accidental contact with their urine just as dangerous as with IV chemo?

6. lab draws through central lines

   LISAMAR replied to morrisonrn's topic in Med-Surg

   when you're drawing for a blood culture do you still discard the waste? or do you use the waste for the blood culture

7. dialysis question

   LISAMAR posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi I'm a student and I had a few questions about dialysis. So when your patient is getting dialysis... there's no point in giving them any medications because it will be dialysised out, right? Does this include everything... even tylenol and insulin?...

8. Mental Health Clinicals

   LISAMAR replied to BonnieSc's topic in General Students

   Oh yeah, no baths either. No one there needed anything like that.

9. Mental Health Clinicals

   LISAMAR replied to BonnieSc's topic in General Students

   No, it's nothing like med surg. We didn't bring in stethescopes, do vital signs, or pass meds (you might pass meds, though... it was just the facility didn't allow that). We just talked with the patients and then analysed everything in group discussi...

10. flushing question

    LISAMAR replied to LISAMAR's topic in General Nursing

    The only thing I can see wrong with attatching the 250 bag of saline is that it could be considered a wasteful charge to the patient. I don't know about a 250cc bag, but I heard that the 1,000 cc bags are expensive aren't they?

11. What Gets to You??

    LISAMAR replied to mshooha's topic in Emergency

    I would have a problem with maggots, or any other kind of insect, crawling out of anywhere.

12. flushing question

    LISAMAR replied to LISAMAR's topic in General Nursing

    See I just don't understand why I see people doing different things... some nurses will flush before and after and others wont (I'm talking if they have a maintanence going). My actual nursing book doesn't say to flush before or after if there's a ma...

13. flushing question

    LISAMAR posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi I'm a student and I had a question about flushing when a patient has a primary IV going. Let's say they are to get Dilaudid... do you really have to flush it before and after? Does it matter if their primary is NS or has K or any Dextrose in it? I...